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Job 31:6 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity); "
Job 31:6
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4 Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?
5 “If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit
6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
7 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
8 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
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Job 31:1
"“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?"
Job 31:2
"For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?"
Job 31:3
"Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?"
Job 31:4
"Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?"
Job 31:5
"“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit"
Job 31:7
"if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,"
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